February 15, 2024
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Jersey City, NJ, United States
February 15, 2024
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A state agency with several locations in NY and NJ is looking for a Product Designer for a 9 month contract.
Please note that this position is hybrid and requires onsite work.
Pay rate range: $52.00/hr - $61.50/hr
Requirements And Skills
Please note that this position is hybrid and requires onsite work.
Pay rate range: $52.00/hr - $61.50/hr
Requirements And Skills
- Candidate must have 5+ years professional experience in front-end-web development, web-based design and publishing, in a design studio or agency environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Master of Sketch and the Creative Suite, or MFA in graphic design, and 3 years professional experience
- Ability to explain and sell design decisions to clients and stakeholders
- Experience building interactive and /or dynamic applications
- A track record of consistently great work, and a portfolio to prove it
- Proficient in Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign).
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Sketch
- Knowledge of HTML, mobile-first design/responsive web design. After Effects or motion design a plus.
- Ability to create wireframes and sitemaps.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, and prioritize your time based on team needs.
- Expertise in mobile responsive design / building responsive email templates
- Strong UX and design sensibilities, and a desire to sweat the small stuff;
- Technical background with expertise in engineering principles and design patterns
- Passionate about writing clean, modern, maintainable, & highly-performant code
- Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems
- Have a positive, collaborative, and solution-oriented approach;
- Experience with working in an Agile team
- Ability to execute against the current corporate design standards
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, agile team-based environment
- Collaboration and communication skills with the management, agile, creative, production and technical team members
- Skills creating look and feel explorations sketches and mood boards, high and low fidelity mockups, and design work presentations
- On set photoshoot experience, knowledge of photography, and retouching a plus.
- Experience with Typescript is a plus
- Experience working with JavaScript, HTML, & CSS is helpful but not required.
- Experience in client services strongly preferred
- The Product Designer will be responsible for developing and executing creative /visual concepts for the agency’s online communications and mobile portals.
- This position will also be responsible for managing and updating content in our mobile portals.
- Under the direction of the Manager, Digital Customer Service/Web Service the selected candidate will:
- Participate in strategy and brainstorm sessions to understand user behavior, needs, and pain points including clients, to provide creative input, help articulate their vision, and define goals.
- Manage the schedule and update changes to “static” copy to ensure consistency with changes to the PA brand.
- Contribute wireframes, user flows, interaction prototypes, and other design specification materials.
- Work closely with developers to turn your designs into real products, prototype designs using wireframes & low-fidelity mockups.
- You’ll wireframe and prototype designs that address the project goals while staying within the requirements
- Design compelling web, app, and email experiences. You’ll partner with our department managers to select a direction from the prototypes you create and then you’ll turn it into a high-fidelity design that you can hand off to the developer.
- Maintain brand consistency across all the agency’s portals (apps, websites, emails) and adhere to design guidelines.
- Plan and conduct usability testing sessions to gather user feedback and validate design decisions.
- Make necessary adjustments to improve usability.
- Partner with a front-end developer to bring your designs to life.
- You’ll work directly with a front-end developer to convert your designs into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Ability to design attractive, useable web pages and application UX mockups in Illustrator, Sketch, or the program of your choice.
- Experience wireframing & iterating on designs based on user feedback.
- Design beautiful user interfaces, with a focus on native mobile
- Promote best practices in UI, UX, and interaction design
- Ensure brand consistency
- Designing and executing new concepts for the agency’s online portals. These include but are not limited to our websites, mobile applications, and the content that resides within them.
- The Product Designer will leverage best UI/UX design practices and accessibility standards while creating concepts, and will work with the development teams to ensure the concepts are implemented properly during development and take factor of technical requirements.
- The Product Designer will also often interface directly with project stakeholders to gather requirements and input for designs.
